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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 51
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
This chapter covers uttara phalguni 4th pada, the star quarter and the past deed the book links to it. A brahmin of Gaya fell from his Vedic duties and kept bad company.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book gives a calm remedy of worship, service and giving. It asks for Vishnu worship, a yearly cow with her calf and hearing the Harivamsha.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥गयापुर्यां पुरा देवि ब्राह्मणोऽध्यवसत्प्रिये ॥वेदकर्मपरिभ्रष्टो मद्यपानरतः सदा ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: Long ago, O Goddess, in the city of Gaya, a brahmin lived, dear one. He had fallen from Vedic duties and was always fond of drinking wine. (Our text is unclear here: one word of address in the first line is smudged.)
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
स्तेयवेश्यासुसंसर्गी स प्रतिग्रहवानपि ॥वयः सर्वं गतं चेत्थं वृद्धे जाते मृतः स वै ॥ २ ॥
He kept company with thieves and prostitutes, and he took gifts. His whole life passed so. When he grew old, he died.
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
यमदूता महाघोरे कटाहनरकेऽक्षिपन् ॥लक्षत्रयमितं देवि भुक्तं नरकजं फलम् ॥ ३ ॥
The messengers of Yama (the god of death) threw him into the terrible hell of the cauldron. He suffered the fruit of hell for three hundred thousand years.
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
चाणूरस्य कुले जन्म ततः प्रेतोऽगमत्पुरा ॥बिडालत्वं ततो यातः फल्गुतीर्थे मृतः स वै ॥ ४ ॥
Then he was born in the family of Chanura. After that he became a preta (ghost). Then he became a cat, and he died at the holy Phalgu river.
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
पुनर्मानुषयोनित्वं मध्यदेशे सुरेश्वरि ॥कन्यकाजननी भार्या शरीरे सततं ज्वरः ॥ ५ ॥
Again he got a human birth in the middle country, O queen of the gods. His wife has only daughters. He always has fever in the body.
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
चिन्तोद्विग्नः सदा देवि बहुदुःखेन पीडितः ॥अस्य शान्तिं शृणुष्वादौ यतः पापक्षयो भवेत् ॥६॥
He is always worried and troubled, O Goddess, and pressed by much pain. First hear the calming rite, by which the sin comes to an end.
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
केशवस्याऽर्चनं चादौ साधूनां सेवनं सदा ॥ब्राह्मणे दृढभक्तिश्च दाने वै भोजने तथा ॥ ७ ॥
First, worship of Keshava (Vishnu). Always serve good people. Hold firm devotion to brahmins, and to giving and feeding.
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
गां सवत्सां ततो दद्याद्विप्राय प्रतिवत्सरम् ॥श्रवणं विष्णुशास्त्रस्य हरिवंशश्रुतिं तथा ॥ ८ ॥
Every year let him give a cow with her calf to a brahmin. Let him hear Vishnu's scripture and have the Harivamsha (a sacred book about Krishna) heard.
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
एवं कृते न संदेहो बहुपुत्रः प्रजायते ॥रोगाः सर्वे क्षयं यान्ति काकवन्ध्या च पुत्रिणी ॥ ९ ॥
When this is done, without doubt he has many sons. All diseases come to an end, and the kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child) gets sons.
Verse 51.2 says he kept company with thieves and took gifts. The book then offers a calming rite.
Verse 51.7 says to worship Keshava (Vishnu), serve good people and hold firm devotion to giving and feeding. Verse 51.8 adds a yearly cow with her calf and hearing the Harivamsha.